Radio Four broadcast a programme this morning called Love at First Sight. It was about the Asian diaspora seeking marriage partners through websites. These people were looking exclusively for partners on ethnic grounds. Not once was it suggested that doing this was racist. There is not the slightest doubt that if white people confessed to be seeking only white partners, the BBC would have challenged them. This confirms me in my view that black racism is alive and well in Britain, and approved of by the soft left.

When we bought this land just over ten years ago we planned a garden that would attract birds to nest here: lots of cover and food. That has been very successful, and we have other wildlife, such as hedgehogs, but our latest arrivale is special: a red squirrel has moved in. We have both spotted him on different days, so there is no doubt about his, or her, resident status.

Hello All. My first book, ‘The Human Circus’ is a collection of forty short stories, and is now available on Amazon. Simply feed in my proper name, Tom Kilcourse, to Amazon’s search engine. I wish to offer my sincere thanks to everyone on this site who has encouraged me by commenting on stories that I have posted here. Your views gave me the confidence to persist. Many thanks.

I happened to catch some of Stephen Fry’s radio broadcast this morning. His focus was exclusively on accent and pronunciation, as if these were what people mean when talking about poor English. The language is slipping because of poor grammar and the misuse of certain words, not because regional accents pronounce differently. Fry was either confused, or lazy in picking these targets.